AN: I was going to wait on what happened on Alex's trial but, what the heck! I'm gonna make my own outcome. Lol.
Cristina held her sleeping daughter as they walk down the airport of Seattle. She saw Meredith's hand waving at her. That was her person over there. It has been five years since she left. This used to be her home. Now, her daughter was her home.
"Is that her? Head full of hair just like yours. Let me take your things." Meredith gave her a helping hand and rolled all of her things to her car.
"You should cancel your hotel reservations and stay with me." Meredith said.
"Your house is a frat house. Your long lost sister lives there." Cristina replied.
"So? She's good with kids. We'll shove our kids to her and have a night at Joe's. We'll get stinking drunk and dance everything out. What'd you say?"
"We'll stick at the hotel. Plus, Alex lives with you. Speaking of which, how is Alex? Did he do the stupid thing?"
"Nope, my speech worked. Apparently yours did too. The trial is moving. He needs our support and you need to mock him! Get him back to his mojo!"
"I'll do that right away! Did you brought a safety child seat for Megan?"
"You did not ask me too! But, be glad I have three kids so I'm always prepared. She can use Bailey's."
Cristina shook the back of her daughter. Megan was waking up slowly. She rubbed her cute little eyes and let out a yawn.
"Hey, sweetie. We're at Seattle." Cristina told her daughter.
Megan looked at the woman in front of her, beside her mother. "Hi, it is very nice to finally meet you. I'm your Auntie Meredith."
"Hello." Megan touched Mer's face.
"You're pretty. You looked like Dr. Kelly. You have blonde hair just like hers."
Meredith smiled at Megan's compliment."Thank you. Uhm, Kelly? You're OB GYN friend is Zurich? She's you're 'me' in Zurich? I didn't know you like blondes as your friends."
"It's a matter of circumstances. She's cool. You should meet her. You two have a lot in common except she doesn't live here so, it means that she doesn't almost 'die' every once in a while." Cristina replied.
"Oh, she's a woman with issues too?"
"A lot, but like you, she handles them gracefully."
"How the hell did I handle my issues gracefully? I ended up talking with a shrink."
"Meredith, I'm tired. Can't you just accept my compliment and let us sleep in the ride. I'm freaking tired and something tells me, this is one hell of a weekend."
Meredith glanced at Cristina while driving. She was glad that she's back. Then, she remembered what happened earlier. It was about Owen.
"Fine. Thank you. I have something to tell you."
"What?"
"Amelia ran away. I think. She left a note for Owen saying that don't find her because she needs some time to think."
"Why? It's only been how many months? Aren't they supposed to be happy because she's everything Owen wants."
"Is that sarcasm?"
"No, I mean. She wants kids. You said she talks a lot so, they get to resolve their problems faster."
"Well, you see, she doesn't want to have kids."
"What!?"
"But I think that's just trauma talking and Alex knew why."
"Alex knows? How?"
"She confided with him."
"So Amelia found comfort to Alex? See, Alex really grew up. That is why he doesn't need to go back to his past. He's reliable and smart. He's compassionate and I think, he deserves all the chance in life. That prison can rot all on its own because it is not getting Alex Karev."
"You just changed the subject in a new dimensional way. Well done Cristina Yang."
"Let's not talk about Amelia, please."
"Fine. Go to sleep."
Meredith had let Cristina sleep all through the ride to the hotel. The hotel Cristina reserved was near to the hospital just as she always liked. Meredith shook Cristina a bit to wake her up.
"Cristina? We're here and your daughter is wide awake."
"That'll probably be jet lag." Cristina replied.
"Why are you not having jet lag?"
"Had a 6 hour surgery at Zurich. I'm tired and she slept all throughout the flight."
"That explains it. This time, I'll carry Megan. You carry the luggages."
Meredith carried Megan through the hotel and Cristina took the luggages out. The hotel staff helped and rolled they're things up to their room. Megan was already comfortable with Meredith, given it was their first time actually seeing each other in person. Although, they may have talked to each other in the screen for the past years. Cristina opened the hotel room and Mer released Megan on the floor. The little girl squirmed and ran on the big room. She immediately launched herself in front of the television to watch kiddie shows. Meanwhile, Mer's phone rang, it was Alex.
"Alex? Where the hell are you? You've been missing for the whole twenty four hours!"
"I'm fine Mer. I'm sorry."
"You gave me a scare! I thought we're going to lose you forever! Don't do that again!"
"I know, I'm so sorry."
Cristina took the phone from Meredith's ear.
"Alex! It's Cristina! You stupid evil spawn, you listen to me! Don't do that again because you do not deserve that! Do you hear me! You do not deserve to go to jail!"
"I'm so glad to hear you. Wait, you're with Mer? You're here?"
"Yes, because I thought you were going to do something stupid! So, I hopped to the nearest flight to atleast catch you. Come here, please. We're at the Seaside Hotel near Grey Sloan. I need to see you. I need to hit you!"
"Fine. I'll be there in a hour."
Alex turned off the phone and the two women were catching up with a lot of things for the time they have been apart.
Owen was at his home, alone. Here he was again at one of the strangest and most familiar feeling of all, being left behind. Cristina did it before but there was a reason. Now, Amelia was doing it to him but this time, the reasons were awful.
Why does this kept happening to him?
What the hell did he do to deserve these things?
Does he really deserve to be a father to have been married to people who have no interest in having children?
Is the universe punishing him?
All of these questions kept running to his head and suddenly, his eyes were blurred by his tears. He wiped them off and stood up. He took his car keys and drove to the hospital.
At the hospital, the first person he saw was Nathan.
"Nathan!"
"Owen? So, have you talked with your wife?"
"Nope and I need a drink so, is the offer still up?"
"Sure, just let me change."
The two guys left the hospital. Owen drowned his sorrows and told everything to Nathan. The next day, Nathan mentioned to Meredith what happened to Owen because he was concerned with his friend. But, Meredith didn't knew where Amelia was and she was trying to leave to go to the airport.
Cristina was alone with Megan. She was brushing her hair with her fingertips. All she knew was that her heart was filled with joy. The joy she both found in her work and in her daughter. Everything was great but something was missing and wrong. Her conscience was telling her that it was time to tell Owen the truth because she owed this to her daughter.
"I promise you that everything will be fine. It's not going to be easy but we will work this out."
While brushing through the hair of her daughter, her phone rang. It was Alex.
"Hey, thank you again for going all the way here to tell me how stupid I am. I never got the chance to tell you earlier when I was there that you deserve to be happy too. I mean you are happy but, you deserve to be completely happy, Cristina."
"Sure. Thanks Evil Spawn."
"Something tells me that my trial wasn't the only reason you came."
"Actually yes. I came here to tell Owen the truth. Alex, I'm scared."
"You're scared? Of what?"
"I'm scared that he'll hate me for hiding this to him."
"Cristina, it's Hunt. He maybe married to someone else but I know that he'll never hate you. I think he'll thank you. You gave him a child. A beautiful child and even named her after his sister."
"Wow. What have you done with Evil Spawn?"
"Really?! Way to kill the mood Yang! But seriously, he'll thank you for whatever his reactions are. You gave him his freaking world."
"Goodnight Alex."
"Goodnight Cristina."
